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Please be advised that SolidTrust Pay’s LiveChat and Verification Department will not be available on Monday, May 21 for Victoria Day along with the normal weekend hours.

In case you are wondering, Victoria Day is a federal Canadian public holiday in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday.

As this is also a Canadian banking holiday, customers are reminded to add extra processing time for deposits, withdrawals, and e-currency exchanges.

Keep in mind, even if LiveChat is temporarily offline, you can still submit a ticket 24/7 by clicking here. SolidTrust Pay’s services will continue to function as they normally would during this Canadian long weekend.

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If you dabble in the exchange of cryptocurrencies, you have likely heard of the technology behind it–the blockchain. But what is this technology, and what can it do?

Don and Alex Tapscott, authors of the book Blockchain Revolution, define the blockchain as “[…] an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.” The blockchain is like a spreadsheet that is doubled thousands of times and is updated regularly by multiple computers. “The blockchain database isn’t stored in any single location, meaning the records it keeps are truly public and easily verifiable. No centralized version of this information exists for a hacker to corrupt. Hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, its data is accessible to anyone on the internet.” This description might be vague to some readers, so here is a quick and informative video on how the blockchain works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43LhSUUGTQ.

Currently, the blockchain is used to log transactions for various cryptocurrencies, but what else can it be used for? Since it is a technology that is a database of agreements, it can be used for the following:

– A bank account alternative (particularly for people who live in impoverished areas of the world)

The examples above are only a few of the current and potential uses for blockchain technology. In a world that demands more control be placed in the hands of ‘the whole’, instead of a wealthy few, could blockchains be the answer to a more democratic society? Only the future of technology and politics will tell!

Regardless of the outcome, hopefully, this article has informed you and sparked your curiosity in an increasingly popular technology. Why not try it out for yourself? Log into your SolidTrust Pay account and do a cryptocurrency transaction today!

SolidTrust Pay’s LiveChat and Verification Department will not be available on March 30th (Good Friday) and April 2nd (Easter Monday). Keep in mind, even if LiveChat is temporarily offline, you can still submit a ticket 24/7 by clicking here. SolidTrust Pay’s services will continue to function as they normally would during the Easter holidays.

For those that are celebrating, we would like to wish you a happy and peaceful Easter weekend.

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In recent news, data mining has made headlines, and not exactly for good reasons. For those of you who do not know what data mining is, it is the practice of examining large databases in order to generate new information – which is exactly what the UK-based company, Cambridge Analytica, does (and openly discloses on their website). Data mining collections can be used to influence consumer choices and even political outcomes. Currently, the tech giant Facebook is in the middle of a controversial data-mining scandal.In a statement from Infosecurity Magazine, Facebook commented that “protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook. In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.”News sources estimate that 50 million people’s data, mostly in the US, have been harvested and shared without their consent via a 2014 Facebook quiz, which ultimately ended up in the hands of third-parties, according to a report from the Globe and Mail and a whistleblower who previously worked at Cambridge Analytica. Once discovered by Facebook, the company claims to have removed the application and deleted the data that was collected – Cambridge Analytica has made the same claims, and has stated that none of the information collected was used (you can read the official press releases from Cambridge Analytica here). Cambridge Analytica has also stated that “this Facebook data was not used by Cambridge Analytica as part of the services it provided to the Donald Trump presidential campaign; personality targeted advertising was not carried out for this client either. The company has made this clear since 2016 … Cambridge Analytica and its affiliates work with commercial brands and mainstream political parties in democratic elections. We did not work on the Brexit referendum in the UK.”SolidTrust Pay would like to remind users to read all Privacy and User Agreements before proceeding with any account creation, or before giving consent to applications that request access to personal devices. Should you have any privacy or data collection concerns in regards to SolidTrust Pay, please click here.